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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 360M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
65 vs 48
Hardware Fit
99 vs 98
Quality Score
51 vs 26

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… smollm2-360m-instr…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-1.7b-instr… smollm2-360m-instr…
Tokens/sec28.520.0
First chunk393 ms1116 ms
TTFT393 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.2 GB0.3 GB
Memory %10%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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$ metrillm

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